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Explore this Lens and Oh, CRAAP (Chapter 3)

 

Explore this Lens and Oh, CRAAP (pages 34-35), Chapter 3 Recap
  • The third lens, forensics, focuses on locating, collecting, and evaluating clues to determine the credibility of digital information.
  • Checklists like CRAAP are becoming less relevant as digital content and the way we access and use it changes.

 

The currency, relevance, authority, accuracy and purpose (CRAAP) test is used to check information credibility.

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Middle-grade students assess the relevancy, appropriateness, detail, currency, authority, and bias (RADCAB) of information to determine its credibility.

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Reflecting on Your Learning

Check out several credibility tests created to help evaluate online information in this LibGuide from Community College of Phildelphia. Then, answer these questions in the Open Space group title Professional Learning Book Study: Developing Digital Detectives. In the Discussions tab, find Question 3: Evaluating Evaluation Tools. 

  1. What are similarities between these credibility tests? How are they alike in addressing the problem?
  2. Consider a research activity or project you have done with students recently. How would you use one of these credibility tests to help them evaluate their sources? What other elements should be added to evaluate sources on the web today that weren't included 20 years ago?
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